HAVING WORDS (EXCERPT: The Handshake Dance)

Choreography by casebolt and smith
Lighting by Matt Miller
Music by Nico Muhly

Having Words builds a dance with the support of audience members. Through the performance, audience become dancers and dancers become audience, each observing and appreciating the work of the other more clearly through empathy.  -casebolt and smith

Created for and premiered by DanceWorks Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, on April 27, 2014.